Apply the updater and ask it to blat the iPod first. This will completely replace the iPod operating system and then resync all your songs back on again. Might take you half an hour to put the songs back on, but you'll be bang up to date and there won't be any lingering problems from the previous version of the iPod system.

Watch the track sync in that little iTunes window like a hawk so if you get the error again, you have a chance of spotting the track it occurred on. Simplest thing is to dump the offending track and re-rip it to get a nice new shiny version of it.

Apply the updater and ask it to blat the iPod first. This will completely replace the iPod operating system and then resync all your songs back on again. Might take you half an hour to put the songs back on, but you'll be bang up to date and there won't be any lingering problems from the previous version of the iPod system.

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Alright I will try.

And It will take about 2 hours to fill.
I forgot, I had a problem before where my computer wouldint read my iPod, so I called up apple, they said to restore it, I did. Then when I put the songs back on it took 2-2.5 hours.

Well, select View Options from the Edit menu and select Kind. Then sort by Kind by clicking on it at the top of iTunes. Now, scroll down until you see all the AIFF tunes, it has to be one of these (assuming I'm right about the error code and it's not an iTunes-specific code). If it's not too much trouble, remove them from the library and then try resyncing your iPod, it may require another restore.

Alternatively, but less sure-fire, select to Convert the AIFF files from the Advanced menu. Sometimes I've managed to overcome corrupted files simply by converting them. Other times, converting a bunch of files has shown me the culprit because it ends up as a 15 second silent track (sort by time to find). Good luck with it all.

Well, select View Options from the Edit menu and select Kind. Then sort by Kind by clicking on it at the top of iTunes. Now, scroll down until you see all the AIFF tunes, it has to be one of these (assuming I'm right about the error code and it's not an iTunes-specific code). If it's not too much trouble, remove them from the library and then try resyncing your iPod, it may require another restore.

Alternatively, but less sure-fire, select to Convert the AIFF files from the Advanced menu. Sometimes I've managed to overcome corrupted files simply by converting them. Other times, converting a bunch of files has shown me the culprit because it ends up as a 15 second silent track (sort by time to find). Good luck with it all.

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Tryed that.
Still give me the same message.
The AIFF file was a song I mixed, but anwyay I delited it. Then restored the iPod, and tryed again, and it gives me the same message.

Okay I started to put the songs back onto my iPod at 7:30.. It just finished now at 12:05 4 and a half hours!!!. However I unpluged it, then pluged it... and I got the same message. Also, my photo's were not added.

Okay I started to put the songs back onto my iPod at 7:30.. It just finished now at 12:05 4 and a half hours!!!. However I unpluged it, then pluged it... and I got the same message. Also, my photo's were not added.

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One way to check whether it is a corrupt file or iTunes itself is to download iTunes Library Manager, run it, create a new library called "test" or something, delete all but one or two songs (BUT SAY NO WHEN IT ASKS IF YOU WANT TO MOVE THEM TO THE TRASH), then sync it. If it goes well, keep trying groups of songs (by adding them to your library) until you isolate the group that contains the corrupt song or songs. When that happens, delete all songs except the newly added group, then narrow the group down until you can pin the corrupt file(s) down.

As for your sync time, it sounds like you are using USB 1.1 instead of 2.0. I don't know how fast a typical Mac will sync even with 2.0 though so I'm not sure how fast it SHOULD go.

As for your sync time, it sounds like you are using USB 1.1 instead of 2.0. I don't know how fast a typical Mac will sync even with 2.0 though so I'm not sure how fast it SHOULD go.

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It takes me roughly forty minutes to transfer about 35GB from memory.

An alternative to downloading iTunes Library Manager would be to transfer playlists one at a time until you work out what the corrupt file is (assuming that's the problem). You can set the iPod to automatically sync certain playlists rather than the whole library in the iTunes Preferences.

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